Philippians 4:6-7 (The Message)
6-7Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.
Well lately I have been dealing with things that the enemy has been throwing my way, and well I thought that I had been dealing with them and letting them bounce off my rubbery Jesus Jacket. Well Guess what??? That's not the case, I have been trying the whole I'm rubber you're glue prayer (just an expression not really how I pray), but that has not worked. So today I have been totally asking God for guidance and he has given me this verse twice!! I got it once for my teaching tomorrow, and then I went to look something else up and BAM there it was in my face again!!! So I took the time to read it and it was almost like God saying, "Hello McFly!!" He is telling me he hears my cries and knows what is going on in my life. Sometimes we can tend to shake our fist at God and say, "it's clear as day to me, why aren't you doing anything to speed the process up?" Then when you don't hear from God you start to become a Worry Wart, and no over the counter (quick fix) will help you. You need to wait upon the Lord and let him take care of the warts in your life. God is like the meds you go and get from a doctor or like cryotherapy, even though they may take awhile to work and get into your system, the warts are usually gone for good! But if you use the ones you get from the store which are usually a band aid type deal they are a quick fix yes, but the warts usually come back. So if we worry about the things that God has a remedy for and we try to handle things on our own then, what's going to happen are these things that we worry about will pop back up like the warts you covered with a medicated band aid. So many time we fail to see that we cover our heart with a band aid instead of letting God truly heal, and when a band aid starts to get old the side roll down or it falls off. That allows germs (words of the enemy) work back into your heart, so what this means is that before we try to self medicate ourselves we need to spiritually medicate ourselves instead with the Word of God. So with this said I am going to let God remove the wart that has been on my mind for a few days, because I am not the doctor He is!!!!
